https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46627
--- Comment #18 from Oleg Kuznetsov oleg.kuznetsov@metamint.ru --- (In reply to Oleg Kuznetsov from comment #13)
I haven't had NFS Underground or NFS Underground 2, but other EA releases distributed by Softclub, were the original European CDs printed by Sonopress (=Safedisk or anything else which Europeans publisher used at the time). I highly doubt that they would made another master image with updated DRM just for Russia. Softclub's job most of the times was just to localize the box and manual, while the disks were original. Yes, sometimes they either did some in-game localization or published official Russian versions of the games, but it was uncommon (IIRC, they published Russian version of "Populous: The Beginning", but it had problems with the patch)
StarForce was used extensively by Russian publishers, who actually did some in-game localization: Akella, Russobit-M, 1C and Buka. Their CDs were always printed at UEP-CD factory and not imported.
Ok, I bought a legit Russian copy of Need for Speed: Underground 2 (EAN: 5035226077586) on Avito. On the inner ring of the Disc1 there's an inscription that the disc was pressed by Arvato Digital Services (which was Sonopress's name at the time), while on Disc2 it is Sonopress. The back cover says that the discs were made at Sonopress factory in Yaroslavl, Russia (I didn't know about it). Anyway. I did a scan with ProtectionID and it is almost the same as the Anastasius Focht's one from comment#9 I'll try to run under wine on weekend, but I have a feeling that the game will work alright...
-=[ ProtectionID v0.6.9.0 DECEMBER]=- (c) 2003-2017 CDKiLLER & TippeX Build 24/12/17-21:05:42 Ready...
Scanning -> N:\speed2.exe File Type : 32-Bit Exe (Subsystem : Win GUI / 2), Size : 5987979 (05B5E8Bh) Byte(s) | Machine: 0x14C (I386) Compilation TimeStamp : 0x420AA843 -> Thu 10th Feb 2005 00:18:11 (GMT) [TimeStamp] 0x420AA843 -> Thu 10th Feb 2005 00:18:11 (GMT) | PE Header | - | Offset: 0x00000140 | VA: 0x00400140 | - -> File has 1166987 (011CE8Bh) bytes of appended data starting at offset 0499000h [LoadConfig] CodeIntegrity -> Flags 0xA3F0 | Catalog 0x46 (70) | Catalog Offset 0x2000001 | Reserved 0x46A4A0 [LoadConfig] GuardAddressTakenIatEntryTable 0x8000011 | Count 0x46A558 (4629848) [LoadConfig] GuardLongJumpTargetTable 0x8000001 | Count 0x46A5F8 (4630008) [LoadConfig] HybridMetadataPointer 0x8000011 | DynamicValueRelocTable 0x46A66C [LoadConfig] FailFastIndirectProc 0x8000011 | FailFastPointer 0x46C360 [LoadConfig] UnknownZero1 0x8000011 [File Heuristics] -> Flag #1 : 00000000000000000100000000000111 (0x00004007) [Entrypoint Section Entropy] : 6.44 (section #6) "stxt371 " | Size : 0x34A8 (13480) byte(s) [DllCharacteristics] -> Flag : (0x0000) -> NONE [SectionCount] 7 (0x7) | ImageSize 0x537000 (5468160) byte(s) [ModuleReport] [IAT] Modules -> KERNEL32.dll | ADVAPI32.DLL | GDI32.DLL | USER32.DLL | VERSION.DLL | D3D9.DLL | DINPUT8.DLL | SHFOLDER.DLL | SHELL32.DLL | WS2_32.DLL | DSOUND.DLL | DDRAW.DLL | WINMM.DLL | TAPI32.DLL | NETAPI32.DLL [!] Safedisc v3.20 - v4.xx or newer [removed version] detected ! [i] removed version is Safedisc v4.00.000 - v4.00.003 [i] True Entrypoint: [0x00533159] -> Jmp .0x0075BD07 [i] Appended data contents.... [.] o: 0x00499028 / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x00000001> / s: 00207958 byte(s) -> ~decdf3.tmp [.] o: 0x004CBCA5 / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x0000044C> / s: 00011923 byte(s) -> clcd32.dll [.] o: 0x004CEB5F / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x0000044C> / s: 00004122 byte(s) -> clcd16.dll [.] o: 0x004CFB9D / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x0000044D> / s: 00037971 byte(s) -> mcp.dll [.] o: 0x004D9019 / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x0000000B> / s: 00005446 byte(s) -> SecDrv04.VxD [.] o: 0x004DA584 / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x00000000> / s: 00059964 byte(s) -> ~e5.0001 [.] o: 0x004E8FE7 / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x00000000> / s: 00045056 byte(s) -> PfdRun.pfd [.] o: 0x004F400F / t: <0xA8726B03> <0xEF01996C> <0x00000000> / s: 00794152 byte(s) -> ~df394b.tmp [CompilerDetect] -> Visual C++ 7.0 (Visual Studio 2002) - Scan Took : 13.563 Second(s) [00000347Dh (13437) tick(s)] [566 of 580 scan(s) done]